Brekle's Brown | Anchor Brewing Company

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Poured to a temu glass and bought at Café Académico, Coimbra as a part of Craft Wednesdays.

A: The body is brown to black with some rigorous opaqueness. When moving the glass it shows some ruby hues. The head is beige to a whiter brown and has no lacing.
S: The aroma is filled with roasted malts with a yeasty tone on it followed by a really soft profile of hops. It "looks" close to a belgian recipe.
T: The taste has roasted sweet malts - not coffee!, and just a bit of yeast with hoppiness, which now is even less present than when compared with the aroma. I do really like this flavor profile.
M: The body is medium to high with a nice carbonation level and has almost no bitterness, like a 10 IBU beer (don't know exactly how much actually!) and just sweetness is left in mouth.
O: I have high expectations for every Anchor beer. Although not as good as the Porter or the Barleywine, this Anchor is just another beer that I won't forget.

12 oz. bottle, code on the back reads ENK. Oh, Anchor, why can't you date your bottles? Acquired a single bottle of this stuff as part of a mixed six pack at the local Binny's. "All Malt Single Hop Brown Ale" Hopped with Citra of all things.

Poured into a Unibroue Maudite snifter.

A - Pours brown with hues of red to it when held to the light. One finger of frothy khaki head that leaves some good big fluffy sheets of lacing.

S - I get notes of malts and a little bit of mustiness, but you can't hold down the Citra hops - the hops give off big juicy fruity notes, invoking notes of berries / strawberry / flowers.

Oh man this beer smelled wonderful. I can't remember the specific flavors I was sensing, but I do remember it was hard to pinpoint, but something(s) very familiar. Strong and lovely smell. A great start.

Taste: I think it tasted like it smelled to a degree, plus multiple other layers of flavor, which really added some fantastic complexity and depth to the beer. The flavors went really well with each-other, and tasted very fresh/strong. All the flavor aspects of the beer are great in my opinion (yeast, malts, hops, other), but the hops that they used was particularly pleasing to me. I'm not a big fan of bitter or strong hops, and these has a very prominent flvor to them without significant bitterness. It was very pleasant.

The texture was on the mark too, I'd say. Nice medium-high carbonation, but fine bubbles and smooth texture. I don't know what else to say.

Overall this is the best beer I've had for the style of "brown ale", and would recommend it to anyone who thinks that they might like this. Definitely underrated, I'd say! I got this for a good price, too. Someone said they paid 2.40 £ for a bottle, while I think I paid almost exactly half of that (Canada); It was discounted, though.

Nice brown color with a coppery tint and an ample tan head. Slight hints of caramel, fruit, and molasses combine with a nice biscuit flavor from the malts. This brown has a more pronounced hop character then most browns, but it also has a robust malt character which I think evens it out pretty well. I actually quite liked this beer even though it has fairly poor reviews. Many people said that it was too hoppy and bitter, which I think is a fair complaint, but maybe with all the IPAs I’ve had recently, I really didn’t think it was that bitter. Another common complaint was a heavy alcohol flavor, which I didn’t get at all. I think this would be a top brown ale for big time IPA fans. For me it’s an interesting brown ale and definitely pleasant to drink, but there are some better ones I’ve tried also.

This beer pours a beautiful reddish-brown with an off-white head that lingers as a thin swirl of fizz after 5 minutes or so. Lovely color. The aroma is of raisins and figs, and a bit of bread/yeast. It almost smells like a Trappist dubbel.

The taste has shades of roasted malts, nuts, with a bit of grassy, pine-like hops playing clean up. It is well balanced; a bit on the hoppy side but it is not overwhelmingly so. It reminds me of Anchor's porter, only less darkly roasted and much less hopped. I like to have a couple different styles of beer in my fridge for days when I feel like a change, and this brown is a pleasant choice.

The beer pours out into a Duvel glass a rich dark brown with a 2" light tan head that recedes slowly but visibly, leaving lots of lacing sticking to the sides of the glass. Sipping creates a mostly clear area with some scattered small specks of lacing. Midway through the beer there is still some lacing clinging to the sides of the glass as well as a ring and island of foam on the liquid.

The aromas include some bread and chocolate from the malts along with some citrus and a slight nutty character.

The flavors from the toasted malt include some toffee or caramel, dark chocolate, some sweetness and a slight nutty character. In the background the hops provide some tangerine and and some light grapefruit zest bitterness.

The mouth feel is medium bodied and has soft, moderate carbonation. The finish begins as the malt sweetness recedes to allow the bitterness to emerge and spread across the back of the palate while the nutty character and citric flavors slowly disappear, leaving a nice dryness and faint char flavor that both invite another sip.

This seems a well made beer, as we'd expect from Anchor, and I'm glad to have had a chance to try it. As for having it again I'd be happy to do so but won't expend any great effort to find it or seek it out unless it becomes more readily available around here. Would make a good beer for folks new to beer or who think they don't like beer to try.

Dark brown in color with slight light penetration. There's a fingernail of beige covering the top. Moderate lacing is present. Strong notes of dark malt and toffee in the aroma. I taste a very robust dark malt and toffee flavor. The mouth is lightly chewy and sticky.